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Finding the World That Was Not Lost. Remarks on Comparing the Philosophies of Hermann Schmitz and John McDowell

Michael Meyer orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-9936 ; DE–04001 Leipzig


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Abstract

John McDowell’s philosophy and Hermann Schmitz’s new phenomenological thinking can be considered to be a therapeutic attempt on the distance between spirit [mind] and world that is taking dramatic proportions in modern time. In this paper, the author is trying to compare Schmitz’s and McDowell’s therapeutical concepts while taking into consideration the modern age and especially the contrast between the phenomenological and analytical way of philosophising. The main difference in their attempts to present the openness of the spirit [mind] towards the world is that Schmitz sets the living body (Leib) of central importance between spirit [mind] and world. In difference to Schmitz’s rich notion of perception, one can easily notice McDowell’s reductionism. Nonetheless, in this paper, the author points at the two possibilities by which McDowell’s ideas might seem fruitful in new phenomenological context.

Keywords

Hermann Schmitz; John McDowell; New phenomenology; openness towards world; scepticism; modernity

Hrčak ID:

222840

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/222840

Publication date:

28.12.2018.

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